Camp FIRE FinanceMaurie Backman is a personal finance expert at The Ascent, a personal finance service by The Motley Fool. She is a firm believer in discussing personal finance topics without boring readers and especially loves educating them on budgeting, saving, and investing.
Search the internet, and you see countless stories of people in their 30s, 40s, and in some extreme cases, their 20s, retiring early to live life on their own terms. It’s all part of the FIRE movement, which seems to grow increasingly popular by the day.